Please revoke your support for John McCain and back J.D. in Arizona. I say this as perhaps one of your biggest supporters in the world. Your support of senator McCain is making any Palin supporters' life just flat out miserable on the web. It is giving some sick, twisted and misguided people a tool to divide conservatives. In this case, give in just this one time. It will really put your "conservative enemies" into a corner. Please stop supporting John McCain.

And a message to the anti Palin crowd on FR..

Give her credit for conservatives that she does support like Nikki Haley. Don't focus on a narrow agenda. Please stop with the attacks. Please.

“Please revoke your support for John McCain and back J.D. in Arizona. I say this as perhaps one of your biggest supporters in the world. Your support of senator McCain is making any Palin supporters’ life just flat out miserable on the web. It is giving some sick, twisted and misguided people a tool to divide conservatives.”

Palin is diving us all by her self, don’t put the blame on those who don’t like her McCain pandering and approval of TARP, ‘path to legalization’ and every other boneheaded idea he’s come up with.

BTW, hell will freeze over before she sides with the US citizen over John McCain. She’s proven that.

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posted on 06/18/2010 10:20:41 AM PDT
by AuntB
(Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)

I wish she had stayed neutral or said nice things about both of them. But she didn't.

This is still pre-season. When the regular season begins, and folks are starin' at Romney (RomneyCare), "Open Door" Huckabee, the less than compellin' Pawlenty, and three or four others who just want to be VEEP or practice for 2016 or 2020 on real ballots, then it will matter. For now, let people vent. Palin picks up on it. She has unusually keen political intuition and doesn't surround herself with too many layers.

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posted on 06/18/2010 10:22:25 AM PDT
by Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)

Once the left has anything they think will get them mileage, they harp on it infinitum...looking for a reaction.. They love to throw things against the wall and see what sticks. Become Teflon...don't let it stick in your craw.

Each of us has to make up their own mind as to any reason why, or why not, Sarah's choices are valid or invalid. If I see her as still the best thing we've got going, a liberal, RINO, Romney supporter...whomever...is not going to change my mind by bellyaching about her support to McCain't.

If that starts happening, we become the same flock of sheep as the democrats, waiting for the lead sheep to turn before we do. Conservatives are suppose to be independent thinkers and figure things out for themselves, not like the "groupthink" left to can't pour milk on their cereal in the mornings without checking the fax machine for the daily democrat talking points.

So far, she has experience, leadership, gravitas, and the peoples' confidence; assuming all continues as it is, she will make a viable candidate for office...IF...she does, in fact, decide to run.

If her ties with McCain't would affect any vote you might have for her, then that is your individual decision based on your individual logic...more power to you.

However, she continues to have my support.

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posted on 06/18/2010 10:25:12 AM PDT
by FrankR
(Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)

Ohio...I know you are passionate, but those here who support another candidate, are really Dems, or just don't like her...do not need to use disagreeable endorsements as an excuse to not support her.

If she had endorsed JD, they still would find other things to criticize about, because we all disagree with our candidate from time to time...it just depends on how much we like them in the first place.

So relax, if she runs, the primary will sort it out.

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posted on 06/18/2010 10:28:55 AM PDT
by roses of sharon
(I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)

Ohio youngster, please tell us here exactly what a "conservative" is, as a matter of issues, and as a matter of ideology, to see if I/we can consider you grown-up enough to understand life beyond the shallowness of politics.

Governor Palin would NEVER forsake John McCain, what others see as misguided loyalty, she’d view as integrity. She’ll never dump McCain, not ever -— not even the adolescent antics of ‘Mega’ McCain can deter Sarah, how much less so a buncha anonymous posters at online chatboards.

She harmed herself on this point. I agree with you. Taints her unfortunately.

I disagree with her on McCain as well, but I don't see it as a fatal flaw. Reagan only agreed with me a little over 90% of the time, and I was willing to forgive him for being wrong (and to question whether he might be right). Palin is hitting about the same percentage or a little better, and rather than seeing that discrepancy between my views and hers as a "taint", I'd describe it as a minor detail. It's not like she supports 90% of the Constitution and ignores the Second Amendment and a couple of other major portions. She just values loyalty to a GOP leader (who I'll admit may eventually help bring a few Dems along when real Americans regain a majority) more than I would.

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posted on 06/18/2010 10:39:27 AM PDT
by Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)

>>> "They come into every thread with a specific agenda. I understand why they dislike her support of John McCain. I don't like it is either. But I don't understand why they are working so hard against her." <<<

How old are you?

Don't you realize that OTHER people have the right to support other candidates???

Why would you ever believe that anonymous online posters should all support Governor Palin????????

If she supports Mc Cain, people will see her as a RINO, even though you can look at her record and decide for yourself.

If she did not support McCain, the guy who in the eyes of many catapulted her into the national political arena, she might be seen as one without loyalty, even though Juan might not deserve it on his issues stances.

If she can't be loyal to one who people perceive as getting her where she is, people would not see her as capable of being loyal to the electorate, either, and she would join the ranks of the self-serving politicians in the back of everyone's mind.

If the voters of Arizona thake a good look at their alternatives for Senate, with the political climate there, one would hope they'd make the right decision no matter who is backing who.

Does Sarah lose in the political claculus of the situation? Maybe, maybe not. She will ultimately rise of fall based on her positions on the issues, not McCain's. She is still free to disagree with him on those, despite stumping for him.

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posted on 06/18/2010 10:44:16 AM PDT
by Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)

Thus the danger of placing anyone, especially a politician on a pedestal. Sooner or later, she will fall off and disappoint you. Support her, as I do, but keep your eyes open.

My position exactly. I would love to see someone better than Palin come along, and I'm keeping my eyes open as I try to find such a candidate, but so far I'm not seeing anyone better. She's absolutely pro-life, and I doubt that anyone can question that since that's how she lives her life and her youngest child's life. She absolutely supports the Second Amendment, and again that cannot be questioned. She absolutely supports our troops, and again that's how she lives her life and how her oldest son lives his life. She absolutely opposes corruption, and that's how she started in politics and how she advanced and maintained impressive popularity with both political parties until she dared to challenge Obama/Biden. I'm still not sure what McCain believes, but I have no doubts about Sarah Palin. All in all, that makes for a great candidate and is likely to make for a great president, which we need after these terrible four years that we're almost halfway through.

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posted on 06/18/2010 10:45:15 AM PDT
by Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)

I don’t get you guys. You dislike Sarah Palin supporting John McCain. I am asking her to stop supporting McCain, and now im being attack just as much as I was when I trying to defend her even though I hated her support of McCain.

You know you are taking a lot of heat over this thread and handling it well. If you apply the same in your problem areas with others attacking Palin for supporting Mclame then you will be fine. No one person Politician or not are perfect. You just have to deal with the warts and move on.

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